Volume 125, Issue 11

11 September 2020

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Detecting the number of atoms per site of an optical lattice (brightness) allows the observation of a Fermi gas turning from (left) a strongly correlated metal into (right) a band insulator surrounded by a fermionic Mott insulator.

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Doublon-Hole Correlations and Fluctuation Thermometry in a Fermi-Hubbard Gas
Thomas Hartke, Botond Oreg, Ningyuan Jia, and Martin Zwierlein
Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 113601 (2020)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Faster Uphill Relaxation in Thermodynamically Equidistant Temperature Quenches

Alessio Lapolla and Aljaž Godec

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 110602 (2020) - Published 11 September, 2020

Contrary to conventional wisdom, a sufficiently small, cold object warms to the temperature of its surroundings faster than a warm object cools, according to a new theory.

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Coexistence of Surface Ferromagnetism and a Gapless Topological State in ${MnBi}_{2} {Te}_{4}$

D. Nevola, H. X. Li, J.-Q. Yan, R. G. Moore, H.-N. Lee, H. Miao, and P. D. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 117205 (2020) - Published 9 September, 2020

Experiments show that the ferromagnetism naturally possessed by the topological insulator manganese bismuth telluride extends right to the material’s surface.

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Orbital Magnetic Moment of Magnons

Robin R. Neumann, Alexander Mook, Jürgen Henk, and Ingrid Mertig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 117209 (2020) - Published 10 September, 2020

Magnetic quasiparticles called magnons are predicted to exhibit a measurable “orbital magnetic moment” in addition to their spin magnetic moment.

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Dissipation-Based Quantum Sensing of Magnons with a Superconducting Qubit

S. P. Wolski, D. Lachance-Quirion, Y. Tabuchi, S. Kono, A. Noguchi, K. Usami, and Y. Nakamura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 117701 (2020) - Published 8 September, 2020

A new method can detect a steady-state population of magnons in a crystal.

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High Temperature Virial Expansion to Universal Quench Dynamics

Mingyuan Sun, Peng Zhang, and Hui Zhai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 110404 (2020) - Published 10 September, 2020

A new method to study the evolution of a nondegenerate quantum system out of equilibrium explains the results of a recent experiment reporting universal quench dynamics of a Bose gas.

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First Results on Dark Matter Substructure from Astrometric Weak Lensing

Cristina Mondino, Anna-Maria Taki, Ken Van Tilburg, and Neal Weiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 111101 (2020) - Published 9 September, 2020

Time-domain astrometric weak gravitational lensing puts constraints on galactic dark matter substructure.

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Self-Interacting Dark Matter and the Origin of Ultradiffuse Galaxies NGC1052-DF2 and -DF4

Daneng Yang, Hai-Bo Yu, and Haipeng An

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 111105 (2020) - Published 9 September, 2020

The dark-matter-deficient galaxies NGC1052-DF2 and -DF4 may have lost their dark matter content due to tidal stripping by their host galaxy.

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Origins of Slow Magnetic Relaxation in Single-Molecule Magnets

Lei Gu and Ruqian Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 117203 (2020) - Published 10 September, 2020

A new theoretical study shows that the tunneling in the ground state doublet in single-molecule magnets has a much more significant effect on coherence than previously believed.

LETTERS

General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc.

Operational Interpretation of Weight-Based Resource Quantifiers in Convex Quantum Resource Theories

Andrés F. Ducuara and Paul Skrzypczyk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 110401 (2020) - Published 9 September, 2020

All Quantum Resources Provide an Advantage in Exclusion Tasks

Roope Uola, Tom Bullock, Tristan Kraft, Juha-Pekka Pellonpää, and Nicolas Brunner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 110402 (2020) - Published 9 September, 2020

Fermionic State Discrimination by Local Operations and Classical Communication

Matteo Lugli, Paolo Perinotti, and Alessandro Tosini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 110403 (2020) - Published 8 September, 2020

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High Temperature Virial Expansion to Universal Quench Dynamics

Mingyuan Sun, Peng Zhang, and Hui Zhai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 110404 (2020) - Published 10 September, 2020

A new method to study the evolution of a nondegenerate quantum system out of equilibrium explains the results of a recent experiment reporting universal quench dynamics of a Bose gas.

Robustness of the NV-NMR Spectrometer Setup to Magnetic Field Inhomogeneities

Yotam Vaknin, Benedikt Tratzmiller, Tuvia Gefen, Ilai Schwartz, Martin Plenio, and Alex Retzker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 110502 (2020) - Published 8 September, 2020

Path-Independent Quantum Gates with Noisy Ancilla

Wen-Long Ma, Mengzhen Zhang, Yat Wong, Kyungjoo Noh, Serge Rosenblum, Philip Reinhold, Robert J. Schoelkopf, and Liang Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 110503 (2020) - Published 9 September, 2020

Bosonic Quantum Communication across Arbitrarily High Loss Channels

Ludovico Lami, Martin B. Plenio, Vittorio Giovannetti, and Alexander S. Holevo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 110504 (2020) - Published 9 September, 2020

Semidefinite Tests for Quantum Network Topologies

Johan Åberg, Ranieri Nery, Cristhiano Duarte, and Rafael Chaves

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 110505 (2020) - Published 10 September, 2020

Heralded Distribution of Single-Photon Path Entanglement

P. Caspar, E. Verbanis, E. Oudot, N. Maring, F. Samara, M. Caloz, M. Perrenoud, P. Sekatski, A. Martin, N. Sangouard, H. Zbinden, and R. T. Thew

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 110506 (2020) - Published 10 September, 2020

Exact Coarse Graining Preserves Entropy Production out of Equilibrium

Gianluca Teza and Attilio L. Stella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 110601 (2020) - Published 10 September, 2020

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Faster Uphill Relaxation in Thermodynamically Equidistant Temperature Quenches

Alessio Lapolla and Aljaž Godec

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 110602 (2020) - Published 11 September, 2020

Contrary to conventional wisdom, a sufficiently small, cold object warms to the temperature of its surroundings faster than a warm object cools, according to a new theory.

Electric Field Imaging Using Polarized Neutrons

Yuan-Yu Jau, Daniel S. Hussey, Thomas R. Gentile, and Wangchun Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 110801 (2020) - Published 10 September, 2020

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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First Results on Dark Matter Substructure from Astrometric Weak Lensing

Cristina Mondino, Anna-Maria Taki, Ken Van Tilburg, and Neal Weiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 111101 (2020) - Published 9 September, 2020

Time-domain astrometric weak gravitational lensing puts constraints on galactic dark matter substructure.

Multiple Images and Flux Ratio Anomaly of Fuzzy Gravitational Lenses

James H. H. Chan (詹弘旭), Hsi-Yu Schive (薛熙于), Shing-Kwong Wong (黃承光), Tzihong Chiueh (闕志鴻), and Tom Broadhurst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 111102 (2020) - Published 10 September, 2020

Sign of Hard-X-Ray Pulsation from the $γ$ -Ray Binary System LS 5039

H. Yoneda, K. Makishima, T. Enoto, D. Khangulyan, T. Matsumoto, and T. Takahashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 111103 (2020) - Published 8 September, 2020

Spherically Symmetric Scalar Hair for Charged Black Holes

Jeong-Pyong Hong, Motoo Suzuki, and Masaki Yamada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 111104 (2020) - Published 8 September, 2020

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Self-Interacting Dark Matter and the Origin of Ultradiffuse Galaxies NGC1052-DF2 and -DF4

Daneng Yang, Hai-Bo Yu, and Haipeng An

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 111105 (2020) - Published 9 September, 2020

The dark-matter-deficient galaxies NGC1052-DF2 and -DF4 may have lost their dark matter content due to tidal stripping by their host galaxy.

Fast Rotating Relativistic Stars: Spectra and Stability without Approximation

Christian J. Krüger and Kostas D. Kokkotas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 111106 (2020) - Published 9 September, 2020

Cosmology with the Thermal-Kinetic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect

William Coulton, Atsuhisa Ota, and Alexander van Engelen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 111301 (2020) - Published 11 September, 2020

Elementary Particles and Fields

$β$ Decays as Sensitive Probes of Lepton Flavor Universality

Andreas Crivellin and Martin Hoferichter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 111801 (2020) - Published 10 September, 2020

Nuclear Physics

Limit on the Fierz Interference Term $b$ from a Measurement of the Beta Asymmetry in Neutron Decay

H. Saul, C. Roick, H. Abele, H. Mest, M. Klopf, A. K. Petukhov, T. Soldner, X. Wang, D. Werder, and B. Märkisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 112501 (2020) - Published 9 September, 2020

Precision Measurement of the Beam-Normal Single-Spin Asymmetry in Forward-Angle Elastic Electron-Proton Scattering

D. Androić et al. ( $Q_{weak}$ Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 112502 (2020) - Published 8 September, 2020

Ab Initio Calculations of Low-Energy Nuclear Scattering Using Confining Potential Traps

Xilin Zhang, S. R. Stroberg, P. Navrátil, Chan Gwak, J. A. Melendez, R. J. Furnstahl, and J. D. Holt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 112503 (2020) - Published 8 September, 2020

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Cooling of a Zero-Nuclear-Spin Molecular Ion to a Selected Rotational State

Patrick R. Stollenwerk, Ivan O. Antonov, Sruthi Venkataramanababu, Yen-Wei Lin, and Brian C. Odom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 113201 (2020) - Published 9 September, 2020

Proper Time Delays Measured by Optical Streaking

Ulf Saalmann and Jan M. Rost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 113202 (2020) - Published 10 September, 2020

Doublon-Hole Correlations and Fluctuation Thermometry in a Fermi-Hubbard Gas

Thomas Hartke, Botond Oreg, Ningyuan Jia, and Martin Zwierlein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 113601 (2020) - Published 9 September, 2020

Quantum-Limited Squeezed Light Detection with a Camera

Elisha S. Matekole, Savannah L. Cuozzo, Nikunjkumar Prajapati, Narayan Bhusal, Hwang Lee, Irina Novikova, Eugeniy E. Mikhailov, Jonathan P. Dowling, and Lior Cohen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 113602 (2020) - Published 10 September, 2020

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Non-Hermitian $C T$ -Symmetric Spectral Protection of Nonlinear Defect Modes

Do Hyeok Jeon, Mattis Reisner, Fabrice Mortessagne, Tsampikos Kottos, and Ulrich Kuhl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 113901 (2020) - Published 9 September, 2020

Dispersed Fibers Change the Classical Energy Budget of Turbulence via Nonlocal Transfer

Stefano Olivieri, Luca Brandt, Marco E. Rosti, and Andrea Mazzino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 114501 (2020) - Published 8 September, 2020

Universal Thinning of Liquid Filaments under Dominant Surface Forces

A. Martínez-Calvo and A. Sevilla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 114502 (2020) - Published 10 September, 2020

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Pattern Formation and Exotic Order in Driven-Dissipative Bose-Hubbard Systems

Zijian Wang, Carlos Navarrete-Benlloch, and Zi Cai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 115301 (2020) - Published 9 September, 2020

Interfacial Layering in the Electric Double Layer of Ionic Liquids

J. Pedro de Souza, Zachary A. H. Goodwin, Michael McEldrew, Alexei A. Kornyshev, and Martin Z. Bazant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 116001 (2020) - Published 8 September, 2020

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Disparate Exciton-Phonon Couplings for Zone-Center and Boundary Phonons in Solid-State Graphite

Xuefei Feng, Shawn Sallis, Yu-Cheng Shao, Ruimin Qiao, Yi-Sheng Liu, Li Cheng Kao, Anton S. Tremsin, Zahid Hussain, Wanli Yang, Jinghua Guo, and Yi-De Chuang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 116401 (2020) - Published 8 September, 2020

Two-Dimensional Dirac Semimetals without Inversion Symmetry

Y. J. Jin, B. B. Zheng, X. L. Xiao, Z. J. Chen, Y. Xu, and H. Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 116402 (2020) - Published 10 September, 2020

Giant Exciton Mott Density in Anatase ${TiO}_{2}$

Edoardo Baldini, Tania Palmieri, Adriel Dominguez, Angel Rubio, and Majed Chergui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 116403 (2020) - Published 10 September, 2020

Twisted Trilayer Graphene: A Precisely Tunable Platform for Correlated Electrons

Ziyan Zhu, Stephen Carr, Daniel Massatt, Mitchell Luskin, and Efthimios Kaxiras

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 116404 (2020) - Published 11 September, 2020

Critical Behavior near the Many-Body Localization Transition in Driven Open Systems

Zala Lenarčič, Ori Alberton, Achim Rosch, and Ehud Altman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 116601 (2020) - Published 11 September, 2020

Detecting Topological Order at Finite Temperature Using Entanglement Negativity

Tsung-Cheng Lu, Timothy H. Hsieh, and Tarun Grover

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 116801 (2020) - Published 8 September, 2020

Integrated Plasmonics: Broadband Dirac Plasmons in Borophene

Chao Lian, Shi-Qi Hu, Jin Zhang, Cai Cheng, Zhe Yuan, Shiwu Gao, and Sheng Meng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 116802 (2020) - Published 9 September, 2020

Quantum Dot Parity Effects in Trivial and Topological Josephson Junctions

D. Razmadze, E. C. T. O’Farrell, P. Krogstrup, and C. M. Marcus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 116803 (2020) - Published 8 September, 2020

Local Berry Phase Signatures of Bilayer Graphene in Intervalley Quantum Interference

Yu Zhang, Ying Su, and Lin He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 116804 (2020) - Published 10 September, 2020

Superconductivity in a Hole-Doped Mott-Insulating Triangular Adatom Layer on a Silicon Surface

Xuefeng Wu, Fangfei Ming, Tyler S. Smith, Guowei Liu, Fei Ye, Kedong Wang, Steven Johnston, and Hanno H. Weitering

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 117001 (2020) - Published 9 September, 2020

Neutron Spin Resonance in a Quasi-Two-Dimensional Iron-Based Superconductor

Wenshan Hong, Linxing Song, Bo Liu, Zezong Li, Zhenyuan Zeng, Yang Li, Dingsong Wu, Qiangtao Sui, Tao Xie, Sergey Danilkin, Haranath Ghosh, Abyay Ghosh, Jiangping Hu, Lin Zhao, Xingjiang Zhou, Xianggang Qiu, Shiliang Li, and Huiqian Luo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 117002 (2020) - Published 10 September, 2020

Unveiling Odd-Frequency Pairing around a Magnetic Impurity in a Superconductor

Vivien Perrin, Flávio L. N. Santos, Gerbold C. Ménard, Christophe Brun, Tristan Cren, Marcello Civelli, and Pascal Simon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 117003 (2020) - Published 10 September, 2020

Toward Understanding Complex Spin Textures in Nanoparticles by Magnetic Neutron Scattering

Laura G. Vivas, Rocio Yanes, Dmitry Berkov, Sergey Erokhin, Mathias Bersweiler, Dirk Honecker, Philipp Bender, and Andreas Michels

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 117201 (2020) - Published 9 September, 2020

Emergent Fermi Surface in a Triangular-Lattice SU(4) Quantum Antiferromagnet

Anna Keselman, Bela Bauer, Cenke Xu, and Chao-Ming Jian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 117202 (2020) - Published 9 September, 2020

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Origins of Slow Magnetic Relaxation in Single-Molecule Magnets

Lei Gu and Ruqian Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 117203 (2020) - Published 10 September, 2020

A new theoretical study shows that the tunneling in the ground state doublet in single-molecule magnets has a much more significant effect on coherence than previously believed.

Formation Mechanism of the Helical $Q$ Structure in Gd-Based Skyrmion Materials

Takuya Nomoto, Takashi Koretsune, and Ryotaro Arita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 117204 (2020) - Published 9 September, 2020

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Coexistence of Surface Ferromagnetism and a Gapless Topological State in ${MnBi}_{2} {Te}_{4}$

D. Nevola, H. X. Li, J.-Q. Yan, R. G. Moore, H.-N. Lee, H. Miao, and P. D. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 117205 (2020) - Published 9 September, 2020

Experiments show that the ferromagnetism naturally possessed by the topological insulator manganese bismuth telluride extends right to the material’s surface.

Signatures of a Spin- $\frac{1}{2}$ Cooperative Paramagnet in the Diluted Triangular Lattice of $Y_{2} {CuTiO}_{6}$

S. Kundu, Akmal Hossain, Pranava Keerthi S., Ranjan Das, M. Baenitz, Peter J. Baker, Jean-Christophe Orain, D. C. Joshi, Roland Mathieu, Priya Mahadevan, Sumiran Pujari, Subhro Bhattacharjee, A. V. Mahajan, and D. D. Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 117206 (2020) - Published 9 September, 2020